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"The Transatlantic Zombie" by Sarah Juliet Lauro, 2015 paperback, used, VG+
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780813568836
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 284 Pages
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Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth?s migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of storytelling, reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking, and the high stakes of appropriation and homage. Beginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenth-century Africa and ending with a description of the way, in contemporary culture, new media are used to facilitate zombie-themed events, Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie?s cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion. Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinema. As The Transatlantic Zombie shows, the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society, but a battleground over which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic, threatening elements, and the originary, Afro-diasporic culture?s preservation through a strategy of mythic combat.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813568838
ISBN-13
9780813568836
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205679258
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Transatlantic Zombie : Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gr581
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
This meticulously researched and exhaustive study is an invaluable offering to both Haitian and humanist scholarship. The historical depth and cultural breadth call attention to the zombie's impact as real social phenomenon and as provocative metaphor for the human condition., Simply put, this is a tremendous--even epic--study of the zombie in a range of literary, cinematic, political, and popular contexts. A groundbreaking work!
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Orthography Introduction: Zombie Dialectics 1 Slavery and Slave Rebellion: The (Pre)History of the Zombi/e 2 "American" Zombies: Love and Theft on the Silver Screen 3 Haitian Zombis: Symbolic Revolutions, Metaphoric Conquests, and the Mythic Occupation of History 4 Textual Zombies in the Visual Arts Epilogue: The Occupation of Metaphor Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, General, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2014-040924
Dewey Decimal
398.21
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Social Science, Performing Arts
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